Dry Eye
Dry eye syndrome is one of the most common eye conditions. Approximately 1 in 100 adults struggle with moderate or severe dry eye syndrome. It is caused by a lack of tears or poor-quality tears on the surface of the eye. Our tears serve many functions – to protect the eye from infection, moisturize the eye, and play a vital role in maintaining a smooth eye surface to provide good vision.
When you have dry eye disease, you have abnormalities of your tear film. The tear film has three layers that coat the surface of your eyes and aid in providing clear vision while protecting the delicate and sensitive eye tissues. When these layers are imbalanced, you have dry eye. Dry eye does not necessarily mean your eyes are “dry.” You might have chronically watery eyes because of the imbalance.
Other symptoms include discomfort (stinging, burning, a gritty feeling, pain), light sensitivity, redness, and visual disturbance with potential inflammation and damage to the ocular surface. This condition can lead to chronic pain, corneal scarring, and loss of vision.
Currently, there is no cure for moderate to severe dry eye. This condition can be frustrating, painful, depressing, and debilitating. PROSE treatment can put you on the path to healing your dry eye symptoms and dramatically improve your quality of life. PROSE treatment uses specially designed prosthetic scleral lenses that vault over the corneal surface, creating a reservoir between the cornea and the lens. The reservoir is filled with preservative-free saline to bathe and hydrate the eye all day, providing immediate relief and comfort, and promoting healing. PROSE prosthetic lenses can also provide improved vision. Think of the lens as a “new” cornea, which creates the shape of a typical, healthy cornea. This allows light to enter the eye at the correct angle for improved vision.
87% of patients with dry eye reported that their eye health, vision, and quality of life improved with PROSE treatment by BostonSight.
Figures are based on respondents to a 2024 BostonSight survey of 2000 PROSE patients.
“I am now over eighty-years old and still wearing my PROSE devices for at least fifteen hours a day, every day, with great success.”
-Robert H.
A Patient’s Story: Dry Eye
Yudelkys Custodio
“I lived a normal life and was always very healthy – not even a cold. When my eyes began to tingle, I didn’t give it any thought. But little by little, the vision in my left eye worsened.”
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